When you Follow someone you are signing up to receive whatever they tweet (ex. typing “follow NewVintageWFC” would mean you’d receive NVC tweets)

An @reply is when someone replies to you, mentions you or mentions you in a tweet (ex. “@NewVintageWFC loved the service tonight!”)

A DM or Direct Message is a message sent directly to one individual for their eyes only to see, a private message. (ex. “d avsteeg can i ask you some questions about today’s sermon? I’m really struggling with this one. What’s your email?”)

A Hashtag is the number sign in front of a term or series phrase (ex. #whyworry, #soco, and #newvintagechurch) and is used to track tweets mentioning the same term or phrase

Basic Settings –

Rule #1 – get a picture, don’t allow your account to have the brown generic icon for more than 2 minutes…seriously, people.

You can allow tweets to come to your phone via text messages

You can control which twitter users you follow

You can control who follows you by enabling “protect my updates/tweets”

You can control which users you get to your phone and which ones you only get to the web

You can sync your facebook and twitter status’ so that every time you tweet, it automatically updates your facebook status

How should I use Twitter? – People use it different ways, but I’ll give you some ways that I use it.

To promote something your passionate about

To connect with people who are interested in the same things as you

To make business connections

To spread the news about what @NewVintageWFC is doing

To quiz people on information that I may need (ex. “What’s the best place for tacos in Santa Rosa?”)

To share funny things that happen through my day

To spread the Word of God

To continue to challenge people to do what we talked about in our weekend services

To interact with people who I would never, ever interact with otherwise…expand my influence

To share pictures (via twitpic.com) of things that are happening (you can also share video via qik.com or twitvid.com if you have the new iPhone)

To share blog posts with people

To stay in instant contact with people I love that don’t live near by

To stay connected with the larger Kingdom of God and how God is moving in other parts of the country or world

The main thing I use it for in connection with New Vintage Church is promote what we’re doing, what’s we’re saying and creating a conversation pre, during and post service experience. Basically connecting us beyond the weekend.